Asset managers are turning to alternative data sources in the wake of China’s coronavirus outbreak in order to identify the impact  the epidemic will have on their investments in the region. The human toll of the virus is still hard to fully quant...

In this month’s roundup, funds hire new data strategists, YipitData appoints a new senior sales executive and Evaluate promotes a new director of product management. 

In this month’s roundup, Capula hires a new market data manager, Sensor Tower promotes a new VP of Sales and Jump hires a new alternative data sourcing manager.

The AltDating round at May 2025’s New York Summit had nearly 200 data buyers and 250 vendor participants. From all of these choices and meetings, buyers showed the most interest in topics such as TikTok sentiment, clickstream and CPI signals.

In this month’s roundup, FiscalNote builds out its product leadership team, FactSet hires a new head of investor relations and Crunchbase continues to recruit for its rebrand. 

In a market-moving development, Consumer Edge announced that it has agreed to acquire Earnest Analytics, with the deal expected to clear by the end of the month.

A new set of tariff hikes from Trump have caused global market instability as investors search for the latest information.

Data buyers at our London Summit showed interest in sentiment analysis, nowcasts and consumer reviews data. 

In this month’s roundup, AlphaSense hires to its enterprise team, Crunchbase appoints a senior VP of sales, and Citadel hires a new head of equities engineering.

On 18th March, Sensor Tower announced that they acquired video game intelligence platform Video Game Insights (VGI). The merger will allow the longtime app data provider to expand its coverage of gaming analytics into PC and console data.